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Join Amalia, Sideshow Gallery’s manager and spiritual practitioner, on October 8th from 7–9PM for a very special evening workshop Memento Mori: Creating a Victorian Mourning Relic.
Students will explore the history of mourning jewelry, death symbolism, Victorian funeral traditions, and the visual aesthetics of grief. This workshop combines historical discussion, visual examples, and hands-on making; Students will examine the ways people across different cultures and time periods have used art and personal objects to remember, honor, and memorialize those they have lost.
For the hands-on portion of the workshop, students are invited to bring small personal items like photographs, letters, fabric, jewelry, or other meaningful objects connected to someone they are mourning. These materials will become part of a personal memento mori reliquary—a small memorial artwork created to preserve memory and honor a loved one.
Using shadow boxes, dried florals, vintage-inspired papers, scrapbook materials, found objects, ribbons, photographs, and other decorative elements, students will design and assemble their own three-dimensional memorial piece. The workshop will encourage participants to consider how color, texture, symbolism, composition, and personal artifacts can communicate memory, love, loss, and remembrance.
No previous artistic experience is necessary. This is a craft-based, reflective workshop focused on the creative process and the personal meaning behind the objects we choose to preserve. Students will leave with a unique handmade reliquary that serves as both a work of art and a tangible keepsake of someone or something they wish to remember.
All craft materials will be provided — students must bring the special personal items connected to the person that is being memorialized.
Join Amalia, Sideshow Gallery’s manager and spiritual practitioner, on October 8th from 7–9PM for a very special evening workshop Memento Mori: Creating a Victorian Mourning Relic.
Students will explore the history of mourning jewelry, death symbolism, Victorian funeral traditions, and the visual aesthetics of grief. This workshop combines historical discussion, visual examples, and hands-on making; Students will examine the ways people across different cultures and time periods have used art and personal objects to remember, honor, and memorialize those they have lost.
For the hands-on portion of the workshop, students are invited to bring small personal items like photographs, letters, fabric, jewelry, or other meaningful objects connected to someone they are mourning. These materials will become part of a personal memento mori reliquary—a small memorial artwork created to preserve memory and honor a loved one.
Using shadow boxes, dried florals, vintage-inspired papers, scrapbook materials, found objects, ribbons, photographs, and other decorative elements, students will design and assemble their own three-dimensional memorial piece. The workshop will encourage participants to consider how color, texture, symbolism, composition, and personal artifacts can communicate memory, love, loss, and remembrance.
No previous artistic experience is necessary. This is a craft-based, reflective workshop focused on the creative process and the personal meaning behind the objects we choose to preserve. Students will leave with a unique handmade reliquary that serves as both a work of art and a tangible keepsake of someone or something they wish to remember.
All craft materials will be provided — students must bring the special personal items connected to the person that is being memorialized.